CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
Closer Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: What Can Management Educators Learn?"
Guest Editors: Dale Fitzgibbons (<st1:placename w:st="on">Illinois</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>) and Maria Humphries (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Waikato</st1:placename></st1:place>)
The Journal of Management Education invites submissions for a special issue on "Closer Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: What Can Management Educators Learn?" We invite conceptual and empirical articles that explore teaching and learning with and about indigenous knowledge in contemporary society and organizations. Possible topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following:
· What can Western management educators learn from indigenous scholars that will enhance management education for both indigenous and non-indigenous students?
· What contribution may indigenous knowledge bring to the business curriculum? In the MBA curriculum? In executive education?
· How does one introduce indigenous knowledge into business school curricula?
· What are the experiences of educators who attempt to introduce indigenous topics in their courses and/or their business schools? Do they encounter unique pedagogical and institutional challenges (similar to those teaching ethics or globalization)? If so, how might they be dealt with? Which strategies might prove effective?
· What should business students study to enhance their understanding of the increased significance of indigenous assertiveness in the global economy? What theories, concepts and models are relevant for understanding indigenous culture and issues? How would this knowledge support, challenge, or modify perspectives in other areas of management education?
· Which pedagogical approaches/techniques have proven effective in enhancing student engagement with indigenous aspirations and enterprises?
An important purpose of this special issue is to begin a dialogue about how contemporary management education models and pedagogy privilege certain worldviews while ignoring other cosmologies, ontologies and epistemologies. We see this special issue as being a step towards the recognition and readdressing of the hegemony of current management education.
We welcome submissions that provide innovative pedagogical approaches, exercises, activities, and simulations, as well as reviews of indigenous instructional resources and materials (textbooks, cases, videos, etc.) from the perspective of indigenous scholars who wish to engage with this development and from non-indigenous management educators who are working towards an enhanced engagement with both indigenous and non-indigenous colleagues and students.
Deadlines and Submission Instructions: The deadline for submission of papers is March 6, 2009. Information on manuscript submission can be found at http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200931. Under submission type, select Special Issue: Indigenous Cultures. Submissions must be original, not published in any other source, and no more than 25 pages long, including references, figures, and appendixes. Authors are strongly encouraged to contact either of the two guest editors to discuss submission questions or to indicate a willingness to review; Dale Fitzgibbons (defitz@ilstu.edu) or Maria Humphries (mariah@waikato.ac.nz). All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review.